Year: 2023
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How AI could make management consulting better, improve corporate strategy, and create new revenue for boutique consultancies
Midjourney: happy business woman reaching their five fingered hand out for a hand shake, 4K in the style of pixabay This is some really good thinking and actual tactics from Andrew on how big consultancies could use AI. His team works at EY, so they’re not just arm-chair speculating on a Saturday morning while watching…
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Google is not hardcore enough, or…wait…maybe it sounds like a great place to work – a Rorschach test
*If I had more time, the Excel macro jokes would be better.* *Suggested sound track for this episode:* download share download share Embed this albumsmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native…
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A priori ROI: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still sick today, feeling much the same. This episode is another one with mostly content form elsewhere. Detachment: tactics to stop thinking too much We used to call it “compartmentalization,” which can have a bad feel to it. Anyhow, in this from Jessica de Bloom & Merly Kosenkranius: Detachment is your need for psychological disengagement…
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A priori ROI: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still sick today, feeling much the same. This episode is another one with mostly content form elsewhere. Detachment: tactics to stop thinking too much We used to call it “compartmentalization,” which can have a bad feel to it. Anyhow, in this from Jessica de Bloom & Merly Kosenkranius: Detachment is your need for psychological disengagement…
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Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS
MidJourney: man who is sick with children crawl all over him, sitting on a green couch, cinematic, 8k, dutch angle, action dramatic epic. I’m in the middle of some kind of cold today, so I’m spending most of my time staring at the wall or sleeping.1 This means it’s a good time to catch up…
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These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers
Remember that a platform is for application developers Sam Newman has a great take on the dangers of forgetting the point of developers platforms. As you may recall, I think the same: infrastructure builders get easily distracted by building infrastructure when it’d be more helpful to pay more attention to developer usability and needs. This…
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Launchpad
The Bad Child For the most part, I think of therapy as gaslighting. The work (usually in my experience, at least) is about two things (1) making you accept the situation you’re in, and, (2) making changes in how you act and think. The part where you’re encouraged to talk more and “let people” in…
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Slip, Slap, Slop – and more found delights
New at the Rijksmuseum room at Schipol Airport Boomgaard te Eemnes, by Richard Roland Holst, c. 1888-1895 One of the delights in the international part of the Amsterdam airport, Schipol, is a large room that the Rijksmuseum fills with paintings and other art works. There’s usually, say, six or eight paintings in there. There’s a…
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Jalapeños are pickled, but pickles aren’t jalapeños
Confusion Over Pickles Burger King in Antwerp, Nov 14th, 2018. In Ghent, for a quick dinner, I went to Burger King. I ordered a burger – the “steakhouse” or something, which was a mistake because as Texan, I can’t stand sweet BBQ sauce, but it was fine. When I went to the counter to pick…
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The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release software
The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release software From the CNCF 2022 survey. The CNCF has a new kubernetes survey out. We discussed it in more length in today’s Tanzu Talk News (it’s not published yet, but subscribe to it and you’ll get it tomorrow). Here’s some notes of mine: I did…
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🏨📺🥶 Pieter Bruegel’s Discount Motel, Color TV, Cold AC
Generic Plan for a Starting a Platform Team in a Large Enterprise On Friday, I had a discussion with someone just starting to think about how they’d put a platform in place at their very large organization. I have my ever evolving prattle about that, of course. But rather than talk about (only) that, I…
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Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction
Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction Opening question Or, here if that’s your thing. Shaking the snow globe When you watch the making of kubernetes documentary, you’ll notice a strange character. Time and time again Amazon is referred to directly or indirectly. But, Amazon’s spokesperson in the documentary is a silent,…
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How AI could help and harm management consultant firms
👔 How AI could help and harm management consultant firms From Midjourney. Here is a question from Andrew Citera in the Software Defined Talk slack: Do you think this tech will eventually replace consultants or do you think it just adjusts the human capital leverage factor? E.g. an industry company hires an “AI-driven consultancy” and…
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Maximizing ROI: The Key to Successful Enterprise Software Company Acquisitions
In Enterprise Software, the Synergy is Sales In my experience, when a tech larger company acquires a smaller one, the most important synergy is sales. “Synergy” in my use just means “the things that make the two companies more money because they are now one.” In enterprise software (or cloud, or whatever), this means changing…
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The finger-wagger is usually just me finger-wagging at myself
# A reminder that having fun is possible It’s hard finding fun – and especially joy – in life. Family is frequently just about getting through the every day grind and fighting to have some time to “hear myself thinking.” Even getting together with friends can seem like planning an all hands meeting. Beware of…
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ChatGPT creates a digital transformation strategy for a pharmacy company – you’ll never guess what happens next!
Pretty long one below, but fun if you’re into exploring the potential for AI stuff to make work-life less tedious. In case you just wanted something fun, scroll to the bottom to see me become the victim of my daughter’s favorite joke. Coming up with a digital transformation for a pharmacy company Midjourney prompt: a…
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Product Management in Platform Engineering
Suggested soundtrack: I really enjoy the London Eye show. I don’t listen to it enough. This morning I gave my talk on platform stuff – platform engineering, building an app stack on kubernetes, etc. It was fun as always. I think there were some parts that were more shallow than usual, but I like the…
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When can we just profit and chill?
Real quick: I’m giving a talk tomorrow on how to run a developer platform group in large organizations, based on real world stories over the past seven years. You can watch it free tomorrow or just catch the recording: just register for it, free, and you’ll get all taken care of. # Share Price =…
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